The Prevention of Preterm Labour - Corticotropin Releasing Hormone Type 1 Receptors as a Target for Drug Design and Development

Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers

E-ISSN: 1875-5607|3|4|295-303

ISSN: 1389-5575

Source: Mini Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry, Vol.3, Iss.4, 2003-06, pp. : 295-303

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Abstract

The role of the corticotropin releasing hormone in the onset of labour and the subsequent medicinal chemistry implications of CRH antagonists for the prevention of premature birth, and identification of the CRH type 1 receptor as the target for this drug design, are reviewed here.

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